Freedom of expression law

Does hate speech undermine democracy by attacking its most vulnerable members? Does it threaten the equal dignity of all citizens? Heinze and Phillipson draw on law, politics, philosophy and ethics to debate these and other questions. Learn More

In The Free Speech Century, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Geoffrey Stone and Lee Bollinger, have gathered a group of the nation's leading legal scholars (Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen Sullivan, Catherine McKinnon, and others) to evaluate the development of free speech doctrine since Schenk and assess where it might be headed in our post-Snowden era. Learn More

The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment. This book discusses the Supreme Court justices before John Marshall and their confrontations with those freedoms. Learn More

A comprehensive examination of the techniques employed by the constitutional systems of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, and how these techniques are applied to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, right to equality, and criminal due process rights, in order to reshape the constitutional landscape. Learn More

How should we think about the problems of privacy and free speech? Neil Richards argues that when privacy and free speech truly conflict, free speech should almost always win, but contends that, contrary to conventional wisdom, speech and privacy are only rarely in conflict. Learn More